First Solar

IKEA

Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people and we offer well designed, functional and affordable, high quality home furnishing, produced with care for people and the environment.

SME

SELCO Foundation

The philosophy of SELCO Foundation is that decentralized renewable energy solutions need to be implemented holistically by combining technology, finance and social aspects to demonstrate the link between environmental sustainability and poverty alleviation. Interventions of the organization leads to improved quality of life and increased incomes for the poor: with the underlying aim to create processes that can be replicated around the world for 3 billion poor people.

EcoNation

EcoNation (Belgium) developed and commercialised the 'LightCatcher', the first active and intelligent daylight system in the world which captures, enhances, filters and optimises daylight through a skylight, motorised mirror and lenses. LightCatcher allows users to switch off artificial light fittings for 3,650 hours per year while making use of only 1% of the roof surface. Thanks to its direct, high efficiency, the LightCatcher’s impact on environment and energy bill is eight times higher than solar panels.

Non-Profit Organization (NPO/NGO)

Electriciens sans Frontières

SolarAid

SolarAid is a London-based international charity that believes in business-based solutions to poverty and climate change. SolarAid was founded in 2006 by solar company Solarcentury to explore and create clean, safe, affordable energy for all.

World Resources Institute

Global High Schools

Asia

Amra Bint Abdul Rahman Secondary School for Girls

The school is located in the United Arab Emirates which has a sub-tropical and arid climate with plenty of sunshine. It has 88 students and wants install some solar panels to reduce the amount of electricity it buys from the grid, and replace all its light bulbs with LED lamps to reduce its overall consumption.

Royal College

Royal College (http://royalcollege.lk/), founded in 1835, is considered the oldest public school in Sri Lanka, which today provides free education in both primary and secondary levels for almost 9,000 students, comprised of Sinhalese, Muslims, Tamils and other ethnicities, with Buddhist, Islamic, Christian and Hindu faiths, and has over the years been the benchmark for harmonious living in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society.

Rishi Valley Education Centre

The school is located in a remote part of India and wants to build a 25kW PV system with battery storage to combat regular power cuts. Power cuts can be up to 10 hours a day and impede regular learning for students. It is also promoted as a way to reduce the school’s carbon footprint and to increase awareness about sustainable energy sources. The school consists of a main school with a teacher training centre as well as ten satellite schools in neighbouring villages.

Africa

Abaarso school of science and technology

Abaarso School of Science and Technology is a selective boarding school with a mathematics-focused curriculum taught in English. The school’s teachers are volunteers. The school currently has a 20kW wind turbine and two diesel generators with micro-grid controls. The school won $50,000 last year after becoming a finalist for the ZFEP and is using these funds to repair its wind turbine and its solar water heaters.

Alliance Girls High School

The Alliance Girls’ High School is Kenya’s premier high school for girls and admission to the School is greatly sought after. This respected boarding School admits pupils from all 47 Counties in Kenya on merit, regardless of social and economic background.